Can somebody explain to me how Brewster is still allowed to fight. Dude is basically disabled. :verysad
If Batchelder is smart, he targets that eye all night long. Brutal and potentially premanently damaging, but this is boxing and beating Brewster would propel Batchelder's career bigtime.
The question is, is Brewster really disabled or is his eye fine? I know he suffered a detached retina in his fight with Lyakhovich, but it seems that it healed well (unlike Calvin Brock, where it all went wrong). He got cleared to fight Wlad in the rematch and he didn't look good, but that was more a thing of him not preparing enough and Klitschko fighting a good fight. IF Brewster is healthy, then let him fight if he wants to. I don't think he's shot, and in any case he should have enough left to beat Batchelder. Brewster is motivated again, he did a lot of sparring with Toney recently and takes his training very seriously now, he is probably a better fighter now than five years ago.
I like FROST is right on the mark. I think most of the concern over the eye was generated by the speculation by HBO about the limitations on his vision during the Klitschko fight. There is no FACTUAL evidence to suggest that Lamon Brewster is unfit to fight.
But it's not just his eye. He has had a bad knee and f-ed up back. He's a mess. They should not give someone in his overall condition a license. :-(
I'm not sure how bad off he is overall, but I would agree that it's more than his eye. He's always been a guy who took punishment, even in most of his wins, and he looked really bad against Wlad. I hope he's not in the position of having to fight because he needs money.
http://www.secondsout.com/Columns/index.cfm?cs=24779&ccs=208 The July 7, 2007, rematch between Wladimir Klitschko and Lamon Brewster is an example of what can go wrong when people in power are out of touch with the universe they control. It was a matter of record (for those who cared to look at the record) that Brewster hadn’t fought in fifteen months, hadn’t won a fight since 2005, and had undergone eye surgery three times. Against Klitschko, he wasn’t in shape, lost every minute of the fight, and was spared further damage when his trainer (Buddy McGirt) called a halt to the proceedings after six rounds. After the fight, it was announced that Lamon had re-injured his left eye. Later, there were reports that the eye had been re-injured during training. HBO’s subscribers weren’t particularly interested in Klitschko-Brewster. The fight scored a 1.7 live rating and 2.3 for the evening replay. More significantly, at the time Brewster fought Klitschko on HBO, Lamon was on medical suspension in the United States as a consequence of his eye problems. Ross Greenburg says, “We didn’t know at the time that Brewster was on medical suspension when he fought Klitschko.” Why not? Isn’t that among the things that Ross and his staff are paid to know? Also, here's an article on Brewster's medical problems from even before the Wlad rematch: http://www.secondsout.com/Columns/index.cfm?cs=19125&ccs=208
Well regardless, I thought Brewster, injuries or not, took enough of a beating against Wlad that he should not give boxing another go. He gave us some great fights and was the guy to watch in the division for awhile but I don't want to see him get hurt like that again. He was really punished in his last two fights. The guy has heart though.
Brewster wouldn't take a warm up like this for nickels and dimes with injuries.. he's out there to rid some ring rust and get back in the mix. Brewster would replace Vitali if Vitali gets injured in training camp, Brewster would get the job done aswell:smoke
